A Bug's World

Piglet and the Pea

Well, Piglet is just 8 and half months old, but one couldn't guess it by her size and actions. She's wearing 12 month + clothes. She's standing and cruising around the tables and chairs. She delights in pulling herself up on anything and any one who will be still enough to let her. And now she is really making a good start on solid foods. I was impressed with the way she could gum a cracker or Nilla wafer into mush. Poor girl has no teeth yet. Not even nubbins. However, that doesn't stop her from putting anything into her mouth to test it as a food possibility. So tonight I thought I'd try her out on some peas and carrots. She did great! Well, let me qualify that a bit. She did a remarkable job of picking then up and putting them in her mouth. She actually picked up individual peas and got them to her mouth without mushing them. I am horrible impressed with the fine motor skills. But, then she tasted the vegetables. And being that she is my daughter, quickly lost interst in the whole expierment.

Oh well. We'll keep trying. But I don't know how you make any vegetable as good as fruit loops or frosted cheerios.

Ooozing Happily Along

My sweet little piglet is a wonderful wonderful baby. Even though I don't take all the pictures, or write about her or sometimes not even talk about her all the time. She's just so sweet and loveable. And right now, oozing from every orfice it seems. Well, I guess not every orfice. That would be disgusting and I think we might be hospitalized. However, despite the oozing she sure doesn't seem to be upset about it. She has icky old wax and nastiness coming out of both ears, a consitent amount of snot coming out of both nostrils, and gooey stickies in her eyes as she recovers from pink eye. In both eyes. She also has one little spot on her bum that is like a thrid degree diaper rash. And she still laughs and giggles and appears just as sweet natured and tempered as always. It's just so sweet its pitful.